Chart

This is my modified Zeregate chart. Click it for a readable version.

Everything listed here is up for review. Also, those super-short anime aren’t listed, but they’re also up for review whenever I feel like it. (If you’re wondering why I didn’t link to any manga in this preview it’s because none of these shows had translated manga on Batoto or the like. Only Mayo Yuusha did.

Good-ish

GJ-Bu

It may be generic slice-of-life from a mid-tier (at best) studio, but at least it has a cat girl. Also, Determination. …But is that really enough to call it good?

Yes.

Minami-ke Tadaima

feel (Papa Kiki, Dakara H, Mayo Chiki)

The first season of Minami-ke was good, but results were mixed for the other two. Will this studio be the one to bring Minami-ke into the top spot of comedy anime? Fumoffu, feel, and all other signs point to no. But we can at least hope for a decent attempt.

Okay (Maybe)

Vividred Operation

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A-1 Pictures (AnoHana, Shinsekai, Magi, Gyrozetter, SAO, etc.)

Cute chicks in hot pants. I’ll fap to it, but I’m not expecting enough butt angles to make it truly worth my time.

Maoyuu Maoh Yuusha

ARMS (Queen’s Blade, Himawari, a bunch of shitty hentais)

God fucking dammit. I really, really, really like the manga, so seeing it handed over to fucking ARMS and Arakawa (Papa Kiki, Dakara H) pisses me the fuck off.

The trailer looks fine, but this studio-writer setup screams only one thing: Ecchi. And while I fucking love ecchi, THIS IS NOT A FUCKING ECCHI SERIES.

Good gods I’m seriously dreading what the fuck they do with this. Main protag becomes pathetic instead of just stupid, the entire female cast becomes a harem, and the ENTIRE FUCKING POINT OF THE SERIES (economics) plays second fiddle to girls fawning over an asexual, sappy, whiny, fucking cunt like all the fucking Japanese protagonists are. No fucking wonder that shitty country has negative population growth — two pussies fucking won’t result in children.

Could it be good like Sekirei? No, that’s not gonna happen because the studio is shit.

Could it turn out like Spice and Wolf? No, that’s not gonna happen because the studio is shit. I don’t give a fuck who the director is; they don’t matter.

But I want it to be good, so we’re gonna pretend the release will be “Okay”. I’ll queue up my disappointment faces, though.

Mondaiji Tachi Ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sou Desu Yo?

Diomedea (Campione, Astarotte’s Toy, Squid Girl)

There’s, like, fighting and stuff. And tits. I think. I don’t know much about it and Diomedea’s not exactly the greatest, so we’re gonna put this in the Okay pool for now. I hope it’s good.

Courtesy of Zettai Karen Children – The Unlimited – Hyobu Kyosuke

Manglobe (Hayate, Deadman Wonderland, Mashiroiro, The World God Only Knows)

I watched Zettai Karen Children back when groups were subbing it and then they got stalled for some stupid reason (probably because translating a children’s anime got too difficult for them). I don’t know if it ever got worse after the first 11 eps, but I thought it was a pretty sugoi show while I was watching it.

The shit animation in the PV combined with Manglobe QUALITY worries me though, so I’m not holding my breath for anything exciting. Who knows, maybe we’ll have something to celebrate though.

Shit

Love Live! School Idol Project

Sunrise (Aikatsu, Binbougami, Horizon)

Will there finally be an idol show that’s good? Probably not.

Cuticle Detective Inaba

ZEXCS (Sukitte, Onii-chan no Koto)

This could be decent! Could be, but won’t. Looks like a pretty shitty comedy along the lines of Binbougami-ga.

Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman

TMS Entertainment (Bakugan, Cardfight, Kamisama Kiss)

The video above has nothing to do with this show. Well, the titles are similar I guess.

And the show itself? It’s like the shitty, old Lupin style combined with… the shitty, old Lupin style. Pass, pass, pass.

Oreshura

A-1 Pictures (AnoHana, Shinsekai, Magi, Gyrozetter, SAO, etc.)

Oh wow, another slice-of-life high school girl comedy. How original, Japan! I guess the schtick here is that they’re trying to copy Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai by having the characters in a club where they strive to become popular.

Might be worth watching just to see how badly they fail at ripping it off.

Hakkenden

Studio DEEN (Hakuouki, Hatsukoi, Sankarea)

Clambait. Sorry ladies, but I was fooled once by thinking La Storia could be good. I won’t be tricked a second time.

Amnesia

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Brains Base (Ixion Saga, Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun, Sengoku Collection)

Nice try at expanding this show’s audience base, Brains… Base. I mean, a hot girl? Yeah, dudes will line up for that even if the primary audience is women.

But not me, Brains Base! After La Storia, I realized that for shows like this you merely trick men using the Pico to Chico Principle, whereby including only one girl in a cast of men invariably makes her super attractive.

Call me when you make good clit flick, Japan.

Kotoura-san

AIC Classic (Ebiten)

>About reading people’s minds

>Slice-of-life school comedy

>Not a fucking battle royale/shounen show

>Those fucking faces

Yeah, no.

D.C. III ~ Da Capo III~

Kazami Gakuen Koshiki Doga-bu (Not one damn thing)

I haven’t watched the original Da Capo because I’m not 30 years old. From what best I can tell, it’s your generic big-eyes slice-of-life harem rom”com” with a shitty male protagonist.